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As
expected, it was raining heavily in the cold October evening. I ran towards a
bus while the wind flew my umbrella away. It was dark and I got totally
drenched in the rain- not a comfortable situation for a 14-year old returning
from her tuition classes, who was now searching for a seat in a city bus
crowded with drunken men. Luckily enough, I found a seat with only one
passenger sitting on it. I went up to him and asked “Shall I sit here?” He was
a man in his mid-fifty’s wearing a grey shirt and what looked like a carelessly
worn bleached white dhoti. The man
politely nodded and uttered a ‘yes’ but to my surprise he did not give me way
to sit near the window nor had he left enough space that I could sit near him
letting him sit by the window; he was sitting right in the middle of the seat
made for two. Miffed by this indecent behavior of his, I told him harshly to
move to either of the two sides of the seat. He moved to occupy the aisle-seat
entirely while telling me to take the wi…